Adjustable head and back rest.



A. G. MILEY. ADJUSTABLE HEAD AND BACK REST.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 31, 1910.,

Patented Oct. 18, 1910.

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- A. 0. MILEY. ADJUSTABLE HEAD AND BACK REST.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 31-, 1910.

Patented Oct. 18, 1910.

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ANNIE C. MILEY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOEDWARD P. MCCABE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ADJUSTABLE HEAD AND BACK REST.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Got. 18, 1910.

Application filed May 31, 1910. Serial No. 564,193.

To all whom it may concern:

(Be it known that I, ANNIE C. MILEY, citizen of the United States, andresiding in the city of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful. Improvements in Adjustable Head andBack Rests, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification.

My invention relates to the class of adjustable head-rests, used onbeds, especially in hospital service, to support the head and shouldersof the person in a reclining posi- Such devices as usually constructedare not in any manner connected to the bedstead, but movable thereon,even when in use, and are commonly large and unwieldy.

The objects of my invention are to pro vide a device for the purposestated which shall be simple, compact, inexpensive in construction,capable of being fixedly mounted, temporarily, on the "bed frame andover and on the bed; and which is capable of being supplied with areadily removable flexible backing of textile material or the like tosupport the head and shoulders of a reclining person.

To these ends my invention consists of the device having thecharacteristic features of construction and operation hereinafterdescribed and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention.-Figure l is aside elevation of the complete device. Fig. 2 is a front elevation ofthe element thereof which is adapted to support the whole device fromthe bed rail. Fig. 3 is a front view of the complete device as shown inFig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the detachable element of thedevice, which supports the removable textile pillow-support, and Fig. 5is an elevation, in perspective, illustrating the application of thedevice to a bedstead and bed thereon.

Referring now to said drawings, 2, 2, 2*, indicate, by reference to itsparts, the standard by which the device as a whole is removablysupported from the top rail 3 of the bedstead. Said standard is composedof a pair of flat metal bars 2, 2, which are connected to each other, inparallelism, by a connecting bar or bars 2*. These bars are suppliedwith a series of open hooks 2 or other analogous devices on which tosuspend, by its top round bar, the detachable element hereinafterdescribed. Each of the bars 2, 2, is made only long enough to hang byits rearwardly curved top end 2 in the hook-like form, with which it isprovided, and be suspended thereby on and from the bedstead rail 3,without extending downwardly far enough to contact with the mattress orother bed clothing.

The detachable element of the device, shown in perspective elevation inFig. 4, consists of the following parts, preferably integral, made froma reasonably stiff metal rod, bent to form a pair of parallel arms 4, 4,having knobs 4*, 4 at their lower ends; said arms being bent backwardlyfor a short distance at their upper ends to form the parts 4 4 which areconnected, by the cross arm 4*, thus forming a hook-like portion adaptedto engage a pair of the open hooks 2 of the element 2, as illustrated inFigs. 1 and 5.

A textile pillow-support, indicated at 5 in Figs. 3 and 5, is foldedover and hemmed at each of its edges, as indicated at 5 5, to enable itto be used as a casing to be slipped on the rods 4, 4, it being pulledup thereon, and partly over the arms 4", 4 as shown in Figs. 1 and 5, tomaintain it firmly in position thereon. The result is, because of thelower ends of arm 4, 4, being disconnected with each other, the textilepillow support (which may be used without a pillow if desired) isreadily applied to or removed from the frame 4, 4, to be washed,renewed, or otherwise; and at same time said textile pillow-support hassuflicient flexibility to serve the purpose intended, while the weightof the persons head and back resting thereon aid to keep it in fixedposition on the frame.

The knobs 4 at the lower end of the frame 4, 4, prevent any injury tothe mattress or bed. The series of open hooks 2 on the element 2 enablethe frame 4 with its textile pillow-support to be adjusted to procureany reasonable degree of inclination of the patients head and back. Thedetachable character of the frame 4 relatively to the supporting element2, and of both of them relatively to the bedstead, e11- able either orboth of them to be removed or replaced from the bedstead with a minimumof disturbance to the patient; my device finding its maximum of utilityin hospital service.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. A head and back rest comprising a standard adaptedto be dependingly and detachably supported from the horizontal head railof a bedstead, and consisting of a metal bar which is bentto form a pairof parallel legs curved rearwardly at their up per ends and integrallyconnected thereat by a transverse portion of the bar, a sheetholdingframe comprising a pair of connected rods, and means between thestandard and the frame adapted to detachably support said'standard onsaid frame in va rying degrees of inclination.

2. In a device of the class recited the combination with a supportingstandard com.- prising a pair of parallel bars having their uppertermini connected by a transverse bar and curved re-arwardly thereat toform means adapted to detachably support said standard dependingly fromthe horizontal head rail of a bedstead, a series of open hooks on eachof said parallel bars arranged thereon to form pairs of hooks in thesame horizontal planes, a sheet-holding frame adapted to be detachablysupported on any oppositely-disposed pair of said open hooks, and aflexible sheet stretched on said frame.

3. A device of the class recited comprising a standard, means thereon toadapt it to be detachably supported from the rail of a bedstead, andmeans thereon adapted to detachably connect a frame thereto, incombination with a frame consisting of a pair of rods, disconnected atthe lower ends and having their upper ends bent rearwardly and connectedat their termini by a cross rod; and a flexible sheet provided withmeans to adapt it to be operatively applied to and removed from saidframe.

4. A device of the class recited, comprising a standard adapted to bedetachably supported dependingly from the rail of a bedstead andconsisting of a pair of parallel upright bars curved rearwardly at theirupper ends, and a connecting cross-bar; in combination with asheet-holding frame comprising a pair of rods having terminal knobs attheir lower ends and connected onlyattheir upper ends; a flexible sheetstretched on said frame; and devices on said standard coacting withdetachable connecting'means on. said frame whereby the latter may besupported thereon at varying de- M grees of inclination.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my signature this 27th dayof May ANNIE C. MILEY. Witnesses:

A. M. BIDDLE, R. A. DUNLAP.

